Photo: Trukai Industries Mill in Lae
Trukai Industries Limited has recently been recertified for meeting a global standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems under the ISO 54001:2018 standard.
Trukai Industries CEO Alan Preston says Trukai is committed to maintaining the highest safety standards with an aim of achieving zero harm in its everyday operations.
"At Trukai we pride ourselves in ensuring safety as our number one priority every day for the employees, contractors, and stakeholders to do their job on the Trukai site safely and go home to their families at the end of the day," he said.
Mr. Preston added that achieving the highest safety standards also provides the highest standard of products for the people of Papua New Guinea.
This year, Trukai Industries was due for recertification after being certified in 2019 and was audited in August this year. The rice company had once again met international safety standards and received approval for the updated safety standards under ISO 54001:2018.
The purpose of the audit was to determine the safety management system the capability and effectiveness of the management system and meet the set criteria of these standards. The audit was also set so that there was continued compliance with its customers’ statutory and regulatory requirements.
The audit is conducted annually to ensure continual compliance and adherence to the set criteria of ISO 54001: 2018 and to prepare for the recertification audit, which is conducted every three years.
